Televangelist warns of evolution doomsday

WASHINGTON - Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school
board out of office for supporting “intelligent design” and warned them Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck.

Robertson, a former Republican presidential candidate and founder of the influential conservative Christian Broadcasting Network and Christian
Coalition, has a long record of similar apocalyptic warnings and provocative statements.

Last summer, he hit the headlines by calling for the assassination of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of President Bush’s most vocal
international critics.

“I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected him from your city,”
Robertson said on his daily television show broadcast from Virginia, “The 700 Club.”

HARRISBURG, Pa. - "Intelligent design" is vastly similar to creationism and should be taught as religion, not science, a Catholic theologian
testified Friday, on the fifth day of a trial over whether the concept belongs in a public school science curriculum as an alternative to
evolution.

Georgetown University theology professor John F. Haught said that while intelligent-design proponents do not explicitly identify God as the creator of
life, the concept is "essentially a religious proposition."

"I understand it to be a reformulation of an old theological argument for the existence of God," he said.

MM: Intelligent-design supporters argue that life on Earth was the product of an unidentified intelligent force, and that natural selection cannot
fully explain the development of complex life from simpler forms. Aliens? A loose cannon, that's what this guy Robertson is, who does he think he is
going to impress with this latest retoric? Me thinks he thinks he is God's personal representative....is this the way a Christian acts? No wonder so
many are seeking out other religions.
Cheers, Magickman

yeah i go to church, its a UCC church, and theyre really relaxed about beliefs and stuff. for example, they actually encourage you to find your own
beliefs. they dont force you to "believe in what we believe or God will strike you down".

I swear, people are using religion as an excuse for everything these days for their own selfish purposes. Pat Robertson is creating a situation
similar to the Crusades. If you think about it, during the Crusades the church persuaded the people to join the crusades and reclaim back Jerusalem.
If they didn't join they weren't a devoted christian and won't ever get their sins repented or it will be harder for them to get into heaven. Well
basically its the same speech but for a different purpose, and I swear it's gonna end in nothing more conflict and unrest resentment.

I'm not saying the Religion is bad, or the christian are evil, I myself am a catholic/christian. But, I think I follow my own belief just learn the
moral teaching of all religions. So I do my own thing, and hope that faith and good nature will serve me well in life. Well to be honest, I do believe
in intelligent design, but not what they are desputing about. I'm just saying there has to be some higher being to create something. I mean I know
the universe was created because of the big bang, and the big bang was created because of the collision of two membrane. But who created the membrane
and I'm sure the higher forces fave a helping hand in jumpstarting life as well. I believe in evolution as well, so yea. Thats just what I believe,
anyways science is only temporary because its always constantly changing as we are always descovering somehting new so just think everything as a
theory, both the claim from the church and from science as a theory.

Oh yea didn't the vatican or the pope say we shouldn't take the bible too literally? Religion is suppose to teach people to become a better person
spiritually and morally. Stories help people understand everything more easily thats why I believe the church had stories about the creation of men
written metaphorically. I do believe some story in the bible are real but stuff in the Genesis are metaphorical to me.

Didn't Robertson once stand for the Republical presidential nomination? I have a vague memory of a school mate of mine coming in with a paper and
laughing over it all. I think it was'88 and that Ol' Pat thought that George HW Bush was too left-leaning. Mind you, if he had been nominated,
Dukkakis would have got in. I don't see Ol' Pat making a very friendly candidate. "Vote for me or God will SMITE YOU DOWN!"

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